All About Pocket Knives

That is a 'jiggler'

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-2-Mirro-Mat ... 3f12c8781d


IM

I don't think the newer pressure cookers use those anymore. They've invented some fancy shmancy new device to replace the old simple weight with holes in it for maintaining pressure.

As the song says, "I can't feel at home in this world anymore."

jerryd6818 wrote:I don't think the newer pressure cookers use those anymore. They've invented some fancy shmancy new device to replace the old simple weight with holes in it for maintaining pressure.

As the song says, "I can't feel at home in this world anymore."

OK ~ now that I know what it is could you explain how it was used to regulate a pressure cooker?
Is it just dropped in the water or does it attach to the top of the cooker?
What are the 5 - 10 and 15 numbers for?

JW

I think it fits on top the lid, it gets installed over a port in the lid and its weight
provides the PSI indicated on the jiggler. I am not 100% on that, someone correct
that if its wrong please.

IM

It is PSI, as IM said. Below is a link to instructions on how to use the mirro matic pressure cooker. My mom had one....she used it all the time back in the 60s and 70s.

http://www.ehow.com/how_7801902_mirro-m ... tions.html

Explains it all~

THANKS

JW

We have a couple of pressure cookers made by Mirro-matic and they have the same "jiggler" as you have shown. The numbers 5, 10, and 15, I think, repersents pounds of pressure needed for canning or cooking different foods. My wife is the expert and we use the canners for putting up green beans and such during gardening season. Also she uses it to boil peanuts in the fall along with sweet potatoes and lot of other stuff. The pressure cooker is a lot quicker for certain foods as it uses both heat and pressure. They have a pop-off valve in the lid that is a saftey device that is supposed to keep the pot from blowing up if the steam line that the "jiggler" sets on gets stopped up. Timing is critical when using these cookers. Treefarmer

Here is a cool old tool someone made. I don`t know what it was meant to be used on it is kind of small at 7" overall. It was made from an old file or rasp, the amazing thing about it is the only place there are no remains of the file are on the underside of the handle. Someone chopped something with it as there are some chips in the blade edge.

I don`t know how old it is but I am thinking 100 years old or more.

Here's a couple of old things I found in a junk store.
I guess one is a gate catch. Simple but very effective two way design.
The "pliers" seem rather specialized. I don't know what they are used for.

Looks like the pliers can be repositioned by changing the pivot, making the jaws open up wider, I think? Is the little deal on the end of the handles a lock of some type? Neat to see these things and try to figure out what they are. Treefarmer

The pliers appear to be an early version of Vise-Grips. That bar on the end of the handle has teeth on it so you can "lock" the pliers closed over whatever you're gripping with them.

The pliers have almost a surgical instrument look to them, though they are almost certainly not, given the manufacturer and the somewhat crudeness of their construction.

There are several surgical instruments with similar locking mechanisms.

They look to have been made for gripping pipe or round stock.

Charlie Noyes

Hemostats. I have a couple of them I used quite often when I worked in field service. Still use them occasionally. Very handy for getting a tapered pin back in the hole way down in the bowels of a machine.

not a gate latch F...think extension ladder.
i think the pliers are surgical equipement...bone stuff.

http://www.macraesbluebook.com/search/c ... any=333009

The pliers look a little like a set of fish gripping pliers I have.

WB

Thanks for the input, guys.
gringo..... you pegged that one. Thanks. (you wouldn't have the other one by any chance?)

no, sorry...

Miller Bro`s wrote:Here is a cool old tool someone made. I don`t know what it was meant to be used on it is kind of small at 7" overall. It was made from an old file or rasp, the amazing thing about it is the only place there are no remains of the file are on the underside of the handle. Someone chopped something with it as there are some chips in the blade edge.

I don`t know how old it is but I am thinking 100 years old or more.

Love this little axe, Dimitri!! Do ya reckon it might have been a test piece from an apprentice blacksmith?

WB

whitebuffalo58 wrote:Love this little axe, Dimitri!

Thanks!

whitebuffalo58 wrote:Do ya reckon it might have been a test piece from an apprentice blacksmith?

It could be

Whoever made it was good at his game, so maybe even an old skilled blacksmith made it

I agree, looks awsome!! All one piece? That was a pretty hefty rasp, before it was a dandy little axe! I like old tools, but I love the handmade ones!!

WB

gringo wrote:not a gate latch F...think extension ladder.

Good eye, Donald.

Finally got out for the first time in weeks. Pretty good pickings. The real treat was a No.9 Marbles hatchet for 20p. Makes up for the box of machinist's gauges drill vice and pocket knife that I missed by a minute.

In addition to little hammers, I also like most any kind of tool, scale,caliper, etc. made out of boxwood.
I have accumulated a few over the years.
Most are marked Stanley, Lufkin, Upson Nut and Craftsman.
The 3 sided draftsman scale is stamped "Iowa State College Special".
...CCBill...

Those are some great ol' instruments you have collected CCBill. They appear to be in drawer of some kind. What kind of a chest do you store your goodies in? Shallow drawers would be great for pocket knives. Treefarmer

Hey T.F...
It's a drawer out of my 11 drawer Gerstner Machinist tool box. It would hold quite a few knives.
CCBill...